- Full Time Employees
- 135
- Sector
- Producer manufacturing
- Industry
- Auto parts: OEM
- Address
- Gwangju South Korea
- IPO Date
- Dec 19, 2011
- Business
- Seoam Machinery Ind. Co., Ltd. is a South Korea-based precision engineering and manufacturing company primarily engaged in the development, production, and distribution of high-precision mechanical components, machine tool parts, power transmission equipment, and industrial automation systems. Founded in 1978 and headquartered in Gwangju, South Korea, the company operates as a key manufacturing affiliate of the Hwacheon Group, maintaining technical and supply relationships with group entities including Hwacheon Machine Tool Co., Ltd. and Hwacheon Machinery Co., Ltd.
The company's product portfolio is organized into five primary categories: precision gear systems, including spur gears, helical gears, bevel gears, internal ring gears, turbo compressor gears, marine propulsion gearing, speed reducers, and high-speed railway traction motor gears; workholding systems, comprising open-center hydraulic power chucks, closed-center power chucks, big-bore chucks, manual scroll chucks, pneumatic chucks, collet chucks, and custom-engineered specialty chucks; actuation equipment, encompassing high-speed rotary hydraulic cylinders, hollow-type hydraulic cylinders, compact slim cylinders, and pneumatic rotary cylinders; indexing and coupling mechanisms, consisting of high-precision curvic couplings, face gears, and indexing devices designed for multi-axis CNC machine tool rotary tables; and factory automation equipment, including automatic pallet systems (APS), flexible pallet changers, and specialized workpiece clamping modules.
Seoam Machinery supplies original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and tier-one industrial suppliers across sectors such as CNC machine tool manufacturing, heavy industrial machinery, shipbuilding and marine propulsion, wind power generation, defense hardware, and rolling stock railway infrastructure. In addition to serving the domestic South Korean market through component localization and long-term industrial supply contracts, the company distributes its products internationally across Asia, Europe, and the Americas, including China, India, Japan, Spain, Germany, and the United States.
In recent developments, Seoam Machinery has expanded its portfolio toward factory automation and smart manufacturing with the commercial introduction of its Automatic Pallet System (APS), designed to improve machining productivity and support unmanned manufacturing cells. The company has also strategically diversified the application of its ultra-precision gearing technology into railway transportation systems and high-speed rolling stock powertrains, positioning the business for domestic transit modernization programs and global infrastructure reconstruction initiatives. Furthermore, Seoam Machinery continues to deepen operational and engineering alignment within the Hwacheon Group to integrate dedicated high-precision workholding and motion transmission components into next-generation five-axis and multi-tasking CNC machining platforms.